from Jack {orignal post}
My, My. Oh what a long story. I would complain back to the company that sent the mechanics but we parted on unhappy terms. Actually, I was unhappy, they still got there money. You see, Mechanic # 1 visits and checks it out. He says its a loose ground and leaves. After 6 or so times starting the engine it does the same thing. {starter drags as if the batteries are low} Mechanic one comes back to the boat an hour later, spends a couple of hours checking and cleaning wires and ground, alternator and such. He decides that the batteries are low and they are not getting a charge, He tells me to order a new amp meter. [some of you may know that the amp meters are prone to failure} A few days later the new meter arrives. It is the updated volt meter. I call mechanic # 1 give him the upgrade volt kit including instructions on the install. He ignores the instructions and installs the new meter. Starts the engine and the meter doesn't work. I come from the house to see how it's going and find him puzzled. I go over the instructions with him and find that it was wired incorrectly. He still has the alternator power running thru the new voltmeter and not from the starter post {or something like that per the instructions}. The two of us go over the step by step instructions and install the new upgraded voltmeter. He leaves stating that it is installed correctly. I go to the boat and find part of the new upgrade kit not installed {the new engine wire harness}. I was B/S and called the company. I told them what had happened and not to send mechanic #1 back. Mechanic Two arrives a few days later. He installs the new engine wire harness, starts the engine and with in a minutes finds that the alternator isn't putting out. I told him Mechanic # 1 installed the new amp/volt upgrade kit incorrectly and he must have fried the new alternator. [I had replaced the alternator as well as the starter}. Mechanic # one denies it. The company says they will install a new rebuilt alternator at cost with no labor. What choice do I have, i now need a new alternator. Mechanic # 2 comes back in a few days with a new alternator, installs it and I am charging batteries again. I week later I get a letter along with the bill stating how they went out of there way to replace the alternator at little cost to me. Oh, of coarse i still have the same problem of the starter sometimes turning the engine over slowly as if the batteries were weak. It has been months and it was such a strain that i only now feel as if i can revisit the issue. And that, my friends is why i will not call those idiots back to repair the boat. thanks for all the good advice, jack
